The literature of exclusion : Dada, data, and the threshold of electronic literature /

• Main Author: Wenaus, Andrew, 1983- (συγγραφέας)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, c2021.
• Subjects: Λογοτεχνία και Διαδίκτυο; Λογοτεχνία, Πειραματική > 21ος αιώνας > Ιστορία και κριτική; Ντανταϊσμός; Αυτοποίηση στη λογοτεχνία; Ηλεκτρονικά βιβλία

 In the early twentieth century, the Dadaists protested against art, nationalism, the individual subject, and technologized war.With their automatic anti-art and cultural disruptiveness, Dadaists sought to "signify no thing." Today, data also operates autonomously. 

 Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Literature of Exclusion -- Where Word Breaks Off: Language, Finance, and Automated Signification -- Digital Modernism -- Digital Supermodernism: Dataism, Psychopolitics, and Neuro-totalitarianism -- The Voice of the Unknown: Dada and the Superidiot -- Power Is All about Making Things Easy: Neuro-totalitarianism and Poiesis -- The Apparatus Turned Human: AI and Self-Narration -- The Chapters -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Metaphor and Metanoia: Linguistic Transfer, Cognitive Transformation, and Exclusion -- The Flower's Coleridge: Platonism and Cognitive Linguistics -- Coleridge's Flower: Phenomenological Engagement -- Psycho-ecology -- Notes -- Chapter 2: The Radical Poetics of Impersonality: The Posthuman, the Inhuman, and Dada -- Dada and the Radical Poetics of Impersonality -- Notes -- Chapter 3: The Divine Neutrality of the Apparatus: The Self-Reflexive Conceptual Horror of B. R. Yeager -- Notes -- Chapter 4: "Something Is Taking Its Course": Zero-Player Games, Proceduralism, and Samuel Beckett's Endgame -- Procedure without Intention -- Actants and Pataphysics: Imagining Exclusion -- Endgame, Experimentation, and Scientific Narrative: Experiment without Experimenter -- Zero-Player Games and Proceduralism: Endgame as Automaton -- Simulation Fever: Endgame as Zero-Player Simulation -- Thinking Exclusion: Endgame, Flusser, and Information Illiteracy -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Blossoming Ghost: Memetic Engineering, Hauntology, and Metamorphiction in Jeff Noon's Falling Out of Cars -- Impersonal Memetic Engineering and Metamorphiction -- Hauntology and the Specter of the Novel -- The Spectrality of Epistolary Writing and the Chaotics of Memory -- Characters as Metasignals and Writing Pattern from Randomness.